First off, I just want to remind everyone that the “HEALTH CARE BILL” will be the “HEALTH CARE LAW” within about 48 hours. It’s over. Done. Deal with it, you selfish bastards who don’t support it.

Now, the reason I point out that you want me to die is because you do. You would rather the insurance companies continue denying me coverage, preventing me from getting the necessary medical care that will save my life.

Do we like being the only advanced country in the world without universal coverage? The only one to let people die because of money? According to the United Nations we are the 27th best country as far as health care. While we have advanced procedures and technology, unless you have the money to pay for it, you are screwed.

Cost? 45,000 people die each year from lack of medical care in the United States according to the American Journal of Public Health. Now, let’s see — a little over 3,000 people died on 9/11. We decided to spend at least $3.7 trillion on two wars to prevent that from happening again. But really, we can’t spend roughly the same to save the lives of 15 times that many? And this is happening each year.

Socialism? Seriously? If you use this argument, you have no idea what the hell socialism is. Unless you are a very staunch libertarian, you have no box to stand on. And if you are a staunch libertarian, I have one question: How much did you pay for that box? I like our socialist roads. I like our socialist fire department. I like our socialist military. I like our socialist schools. This is simply a loaded word used by people who don’t even know what they’re talking about.

Public health! It’s funny, because if you are the most selfish bastard on the planet and don’t really care about your fellow man’s ability to survive — I say fine. You’re a douche, but fine. Think about yourself. With a lack of health care for everyone, someone can come down with a disease like tuberculosis. They don’t have insurance so they don’t go in for care for a while. During the weeks without diagnosis, they are walking around, spreading the disease to everyone they meet. Including you. Now, instead of protecting yourself from a communicable disease, you’ve decided to save money and take a chance that you won’t bump into someone in the mall, or on the bus, or on an airplane, or at a movie theater. You are one smart cookie…with tuberculosis.

When countries like Mexico, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan offer health care to every citizen some form of care that won’t make them go bankrupt. Seriously, Pakistan! A country embroiled in basically a civil war allows its citizens to go to the doctor if they have a broken arm or diabetes. The arm gets patched or the diabetes gets cared for and the citizen goes home all the better for it. They are able to work and continue providing adequate contributions to society. But in the U.S., we figure it’s better to let someone get sick, not get the care for their leg and ultimately end up on welfare. Sweet idea…but doesn’t that ultimately cost more.

Now, many of you feel like this is an attack on your freedom. However, if you have health insurance already, you are most likely working for some megalomaniac corporation that doesn’t care about you one bit. Very free. Problem is, the vast majority of people without insurance right now are people who own their own business like the American dream states. The upper class is covered with great plans. The lower class is already covered through Medicaid. But small business owners make too much money to qualify for government assistance and have no power to leverage the insurance companies for reasonable coverage. So you basically care nothing for the actual freedom of millions of Americans who provide the backbone of society. Those who fix your plumbing or take care of your pets. This “attack” on freedom is simply an attempt to make sure that those who want to run their own show have some sort of power. Just like the Founding Fathers wanted.

Maybe you don’t think you need insurance. You’re wrong. My disease popped out of nowhere. So suffer millions of other Americans each year. Something will happen to you eventually. And then you’ll end up in a terrible position that could destroy everything you’ve built. You’ll lose your house, your car, your retirement, everything. That’s definitely a great way to save money and stimulate the economy — run everyone into the ground.

When I got sick a year and a half ago, I did nothing wrong. I simply faced down death and survived. Since the insurance companies did not want to pay for my care, I got stuck with a bill that nearly reached $100,000. I paid into the system for years and when I needed it, they said no. That’s the America without health care reform. Now we have no idea what this will ultimately do…at all. But that’s all legislation. If you don’t know that, you don’t know politics. This gives us a starting point. If something doesn’t work, we’ll fix it. That’s what we do. The heavy lifting is done and this will be remembered much like the passage of Social Security and Medicare are — as something that helps and protects people. Something that needed to happen to better the country as a whole. Either get on board or get hit by the train. We the people don’t stop for those who don’t care about the people.

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Not to mention that the tax payers still pick up the bill for those who can’t pay simply beacuse the hippocratic oath forbids a hospital from denying care, even if they’re a homeless bum with not even 5 bucks in their pocket. Gues who picks up to tab – taxpayers. Educating our citizens to make healthy choices and utilizing preventative medicine will lower everyones taxes and increase average lifespan. Not saying this bill is the end-all be-all solution, but it certainly breaks the taboo healthcare ice. Also, don’t be swayed by the special interst groups polutting the internet and airwaves with BS criticizm. I’m sure that many oppose this reform, but as a professional writer I was offered 7 jobs from people and corporations to simply spam blogs and facebook with anti-health reform post under hundereds of fake names. I can only imagine how many people took this dirty money, and I believe this accounts for nearly 30% of the opposition. Shame on those who took the money, and shame on everyone behind the scenes who tried to skew a conversation in their favor using what I consider fraudulent tactics. If you were truly American, especially a Capitalist, then you shouldn’t taint the free press the way most claim that government regulations taint the free market. No difference in my eyes, just hippocracy.

Amen Party Booths! If corporations want to screw with public opinion, the government should screw with corporate income. Straw polls show overwhelming support for healthcare reform, even if not this particular bill. Laws can be reformed, restricted, and enhanced; but first you need to pass the law. Now we have, and future generations will look back at this and say “what took so long?”

You are a Tard. Explain to me why it is appropriate to steal from one person to pay for the health care of another. Stealing is always wrong. Roads etc are different because everyone uses them. No one else uses your health care. You might notice more charitable giving if Gov wasn’t taking so much and more people were without care. Most people without care now qualify for gov programs for low income people. Small business owners should pay for their own car even if the just buy a major medical policy.

Your entire article is BEYOND STUPID. Here’s an excellent example of your indoctrination turning you into a complete moron:

“Now, many of you feel like this is an attack on your freedom. However, if you have health insurance already, you are most likely working for some megalomaniac corporation that doesn’t care about you one bit.”

WTF? Are you really this stupid? Are you so fucked in the head that you cannot understand WHY these insurance companies exist? Clearly you’re BEYOND STUPID. A stupid person is incapable of repeating all of the talking points, while you more than covered that.

It was CONGRESS that required insurance. So this bullshit argument, and it is complete and utter bullshit, that we’re already working for a hateful, souless mega corporation (You mean like John Stewart and Comedy Central where you get all of your talking points?). It’s bullshit special pleading, nothing more.

I don’t give a fuck if someone doesn’t “care” about me. My ego isn’t a fragile, hippy douche-flower like yours that cries every time someone doesn’t remind me I’m special. Apparently you’re a big fat pussy who needs that constant reminder. You’re the same lifeless fuck who supports the Fuhrer Principle, even though you’re too stupid and indoctrinated to understand why.

So let’s get to brass tacks…

Congress created the situation whereby Insurance Companies get to dictate to Doctors the prices of treatment. And it was a Leftist, Democrat Congress that created HMOs out of thin air. How’s that working Johnny “mega-corp”?

The solution is simple. Kill all Congressional Legislation that made this possible and allow patients and doctors to work without know-it-all Leftist douchebag like you trying to tell us what’s best. But that would keep the Tyranny of Nice from having power. And it’s all about power isn’t it you Liberal Hippy Douche?

Some people don’t know but, private insurance is a form of socialism. Everybody pays into insurance company and if something happens with someone, then insurance company takes other peoples deposited money to cover the cost. Only difference with single-payer system is that, it is profit based. Why we need it? I would rather have doctors make money and not some middle guy who decides if they pay for your treatment or not.
Do people really know how much insurance cost?
I pay $1236 a month in Illinois (me and my wife, never been in hospital)
Now, if you are over 50 and have had some health issues… you can pay easily 3000-4000 a month.
Most people who fight against single-payer don’t pay for their own insurance but have their employer pay for it or are using already government paid health insurance (Medicare/Medicaid)!

After reading this, I do want you to die. I guess not wanting to fork my money over to pay for your healthcare does make me selfish. How dare I not give the money I’ve worked hard to make over to you so you can be covered. The fact that you expect everyone else to take care of you doesn’t have a hint of selfishness in it as a matter of fact. I’m sorry that you don’t have the education, job skills, or, from reading your post, it appears the intelligence, to get a decent job with decent coverage. That is my fault and I will most certainly pay you so that it won’t affect you in the future. Liberalism: the unshakable belief that people without money or healthcare are saintly victims of circumstance who deserve something from everyone else.

Actually, I got diagnosed with a long-term terminal disease and my insurance company found a way of linking it back to an illness I got when I was 13 years old. Now no one will cover me at all and I have to pay out of pocket for all treatment. This is the truth about making insurance companies a party in our health care. They can do whatever they want and you are so foolish to think that you’ll be immortal forever as well. When you get seriously sick, see if your insurance company doesn’t find a way to get out of covering you. I’m wishing you a quick death so no one has to watch you suffer. I think this is only fitting since you care only about yourself and isolate yourself from the problems of the outside world. You’re probably one of those people who think unisured kids should just get a job and find health care when they’re two years old. You obviously know what’s best for everyone. I hope you’re religious because you’ll be going to whatever crappy place your messiah has in store for you since you have no care for fellow man. Go to hell “Joe Smith.”

The lower class is NOT covered via Medicaid. In most states, Medicaid is only available to CERTAIN poor people. Children, pregnant women and in some states, parents of children under 18. You can be completely poor without a dime of income, if you are an adult without children and not pregnant, you cannot get Medicaid.